Presentation by Mr. PY Wong of CUHKFAA CCH Secondary School on use of new media in his school

1. Be Social in Learning
Be Global in Life
新媒體，真學習
Wong Pak-yick 黃百益
http://www.i-garden.org
http://www.hkict.net
Education 2.5me 24-09-2011

2. About me
Subject panel of ICT / ITC
CUHKFAA Chan Chun Ha Secondary
School
Edublogger of ICT Ed Blog "iGarden"
(http://www.i-garden.org) since 1999
Convener of HK ICT Network
香港資訊及通訊科技教育網絡
(http://www.hkict.net)

3. About the Title
新媒體
(Social Media)
真學習
(Authentic Learning Experience)
透過新媒體
->達致真實學習經驗

4. About the Sharing
My School Context
“Shift Happens” in our Students
Social Media & Catering for Learner
Diversity
Social Media & Teachers’ PLN
Where we are going to?

5. About My School
CUHKFAA Chan Chun Ha Secondary School
Chung On Estate, Ma On Shan
Founded in 2000
2005 HKCEE CIT; 2007 HKAL CA
2010-2011
1 group of NSS ICT @ S5, CMI
1 group of NSS ICT @ S4, CMI

6. Changes in HK students
Learner’s Diversity – Bipolar Intake

7. Changes in HK students
Learner’s Diversity – Bipolar SES
SES (Social and Economic Status) was
another source contributing to the
diversity in students’ ability.

8. Changes in HK students
Learner’s Diversity – Learning styles
Visual learners
Auditory learners
Kinetic learners

9. Changes in HK students
Few Trends
Most kids have shorter attention span
Know “gadgets” more than “hardware”
Know “apps” more than “software”
Computer room syndromes
Intranet-phobia
Smart phones with data plan
->More attached to social network

13. Challenges faced by teachers
We, teachers, are prepared to
adapt to the change in learning
and teaching paradigm.
challenges in lesson planning,
classroom discipline and content
delivery
Lock or Leverage?

14. Exception

15. Social and Authentic Approaches
Curriculum Planning
Self Learning Skills
Authentic Learning
Building Learning Community among
Schools
Prompt Formative Assessment for
Feedback and Evaluation (no time
today)

16. Try-out 01: Authentic Learning and
Self Learning Skills (RSS)
First Task in S.4 ICT lessons – create Google
account
Provides some good ICT RSS feeds to start with
Teachers and students could read (and share)
ICT news in the same pace
One stop scanning & reading
Promote students’ reading
habit and information
management skill
Demonstration

17. Try-out 01: Authentic Learning and
Self Learning Skills (RSS)

18. Try-out 01: Authentic Learning and
Self Learning Skills (RSS)
students were asked
to write
collaborative blog as
assignment in
replace of
newspaper cutting

19. Try-out 01: Authentic Learning and
Self Learning Skills (RSS)
check students’
reading habit
promote the climate
of sharing findings
Classificstion
through
categorization and
tagging

20. Approaches to be tried out

21. Try-out 02: Authentic Learning and
Self Learning Skills (Social Media)
used Facebook as a
way to disseminate
IT information for
students’ extended
reading and
comment
Embrace students’
social networking
tool rather than
school Intranet
Will introduce later

22. Try-out 02: Authentic Learning and
Self Learning Skills (Social Media)
Be Social in Learning
Be Global in Life

23. Why Social in Education?
“The Internet has proved to be a very
effective platform for building learning
communities among teachers and
students……both teachers and students need
to participate actively and share their
knowledge, experience and expertise in
building and maintaining a successful learning
community.”
- Section 4.6 “Building a Learning Community”
EDB NSS ICT Curriculum & Assessment Guide 2007

24. Try-out 03: Learning Community
among Schools (Why?)
Networked Schools,
Networked Teachers,
Networked Students
Increase exposure of
MOS (Ma On Shan)
students (also to
diminish the SES effect)
Facilitate collaboration
between schools

25. Try-out 03: Learning Community
among Schools (How?)
arrange talks (by IT professionals) and
other OLE activities for their students in
a large group

26. encouraged students to participate
actively in Q&A sessions as well as post-
seminar sharing with speakers

29. •WTIA
•eLearning
Consortium
•eZone
•Famous
bloggers
•Openrice

30. Try-out 03: Learning Community
among Schools (How?)

31. Try-out 03: Learning Community
among Schools (How?)

32. Try-out 03: Learning Community
among Schools (thru’ Social Media)
HKICT Network, a “flash mob” in ICT
Education
Facebook Fans Page
(http://www.facebook.com/hkict )
Growing fast, now near 450
EDB, HKEAA, University Professors, ICT
professionals, teachers and students
HK, Taiwan, USA

33. Try-out 03: Learning Community
among Schools (thru’ Social Media)
With social
network, we
are building a
prototype of
an
“All round”
learning
community!

34. Try-out 03: Learning Community
among Schools (thru’ Social Media)
Authentic Learning Experience
for NSS Students:
Networking Talk (Cisco) and WebEx Meeting
Wireless Technology (WTIA)
Social Media (Blogger Jansen)
Mobile Technology in Learning (Erwin)
ICT Day Camp (EZone, Cyberport)
Japanese Animation Talk (Gundam 00
Director)
Openrice Talk (Ray Chung)

35. Social Media & Teachers’ PLN
US teachers – PLN (Personal Learning
Network)
Broaden HK teachers’ horizon thru’ Twitter:
@SirKenRobinson #elearning
@21stprincipal #colearning
@karlfisch #edtech
@mcleod #edchat
@ikawhero

36. Summary
Fine-tuning teaching
plan proactivelty to suit
students’ interest
parallel teaching of
“theoretical” and
“practical” topics
Promote authentic, self,
social (group) learning

37. Reflections – Trials and Errors

38. Try-out 04: Prompt Formative
Assessment

39. Thank You !
mr.pywong@gmail.com